Introduction
Research writing is a multifaceted and a difficult process since it concurrently requires precision and briefness. It creates two components that are original and new text. In addition, precision and reliability are essential in making the two components a success in constructing research writing.
Thus, good research writing must be differentiated by comprehensive appearance, conciseness, precision of the analyzed phenomena and most significantly, honesty (McMahan, 2007). Unfortunately, the research-writing process, often takes place within the limitations of tight schedules and other opposing forces.
As a result, these limitations have an impact on the written research since may appear making it to lack one or more of the above components. Researchers therefore must avoid at all cost, structures of writing that could lead to plagiarism (Lynn, 2004).
Discussion
Reading literature critically implies looking for both constructive and pessimistic aspects of a wording, what is written and not written. It helps in bringing out what the content wants to presume in order to be accepted. It helps the reader to distinguish the different techniques that make the author’s information unique in his/her own way.
It helps the researchers to analyze information and compare all its points of view (McMahan, 2007). Reading literature critically helps the researcher to prove that he or she has read and understood the different ideas of different authors. It helps him or her show his capacity to think about the ideas from his or her own point of view.
Reading literature critically helps the researcher to recognize the author’s purpose, understand tone and persuasive elements and recognize any bias in the information. Thus, one can identify the weaknesses of the literature (McMahan, 2007). It is important to locate all the original sources to uncover ideas about the variables that are important in the field of study to modify and expand the research being done.
It provides information about what research has already been done and what needs to be done. It also reveals demonstrated or theorized relationship among variables that the researcher is interested in or wishes to study (Christensen, 2010). When writing a literature review, one should avoid preserving the original sentence structure by using his or her own words when summarizing.
A writer submitting what has already been disseminated must indicate its source through proper citation or avoid it completely. The writer has to avoid relying on the secondary summary of other writers work since it reflects poor scholarly standards. Writers should also avoid inappropriate paraphrasing to be their own sources of information and to avoid copying text from the source, inserting, deleting some of the words or substituting some words with synonyms (Lynn, 2004).
The writer must acknowledge every source that they use in their writing whether a paraphrased piece of work or a summary. They should also be familiar with the basic elements of the copyright laws such as citations, redundant, and duplicate to make their own ideas clear from those obtained from sources (Christensen, 2010).
Conclusion
Research requires the writer to recognize the different aspects of a discussion that control the meaning and use his or her own words without losing the original meaning of the information. Literature shows how to think, what to think about and where to find among others.
References
Christensen, L. (2010). Research methods, design, and analysis. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Lynn, S. (2004). Literature: reading and writing with critical strategies. New York, NY: Longman.
McMahan, E. (2007). Literature and the writing process. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.